Thanks to some input on another forum subject I was able to get ZM libvlc working on Ubuntu 14.04 server. My tested procedure follows. I'm not sure if all the "extra" VLC installs are necessary but it works! I am monitoring an H.264 camera 30 miles away ported through a firewall with the libvlc option. Since the current version of ZM from the PPA is not "final" this is a better place for this procedure than the WIKI.

This setup will get you the latest 1.27 from the master repository. As of this, the version is: 1.27.99+1-trusty-SNAPSHOT2014080402. When a new version is released on the PPA you can do an update/upgrade to get it.
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